Limnophila (plant)
''Limnophila'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae. It is distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.''Limnophila''.
Flora of China. Species are known commonly as marshweeds.''Limnophila''.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). These are annual or perennial herbs. They grow in wet habitat, such as es, and some are aquatic. Some species are gla ...
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Limnophila Aromatica
''Limnophila aromatica'', the rice paddy herb, is a tropical flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, where it flourishes in hot temperatures and grows most often in watery environments, particularly in flooded rice fields. It is called or or in Vietnam and used as an herb and also cultivated for use as an aquarium plant. The plant was introduced to North America in the 1970s due to Vietnamese immigration following the Vietnam War. It is called "ma om" (ម្អម) in Khmer. It is used in traditional Cambodian soup dishes and Southern Vietnamese cuisine. It can grow in flooded rice paddies during wet season but it grows best on drained but still wet sandy soil of harvested rice paddies for a few months after the rainy season ended. It dies out soon after it flowers. Rural Cambodians often harvest them and put them on the roof of their houses to dry for later use. Taxonomy ''Limnophila aromatica'' was formerly classified as a member ...
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